The Creative Lives of Animals

Abstract

understanding of what working with data means. The artistic practices by artists such as Ilona Sagar, Mark Didou, Liz Orton, and Beverley Hood (all artists working with data) emerge from intense research into the technoscientific, historical, and social aspects of MRI technologies. Their works play the important role of illuminating the profoundly relational features of data by showing how the scientific process leading to visualization is connected to the body, the emotional journey of patients, and their relationship with the practitioner. In addition, they explicate the changing role of data (from static to dynamic, from exact to probabilistic, etc.) in today’s machine learning era. Giving Bodies Back to Data is a must-read book for a range of readers: Whether interested in understanding the journey leading to the development of MRI technology, or the processes of art-making in an art and science context, they might find themselves becoming inextricably entangled with and benefiting from both approaches.